BROOK-TROUT FISHING 



"Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound 

 Save its own dashings." 



The trout is a fighter from the start, and 

 it requires skill to land him as well as cun- 

 ning to hook him. And, last and least, he is 

 one of the most delicately flavored of food- 

 fishes to some epicures the best fish the mar- 

 ket affords. 



The average trout-fisherman would scorn 

 to use anything but an artificial fly in the 

 sport. The different " flies," made of feath- 

 ers, tinsel, gimp, deer-hair, and various other 

 materials, have as many and as fancy names 

 as a string of trotting - horses. The trout- 

 fisherman of the old school is scientific and 

 precise to an appalling degree, and arrays 

 himself in proper costume of formal cut and 

 secures the regulation trout-fishing parapher- 

 nalia before stepping into a stream. 



The trout is a cold-water crank, and will 

 not live in a brook or river unless the water 

 is up to a certain degree of coolness. In the 

 mountainous regions of the eastern states, in 

 the brooks running down the mountains, the 

 true salmo fontinalis is found in fairly plenti- 

 ful numbers, and the scenery is wonderfully 

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